New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence of a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist in Red Fort attack case in which three army personnel were killed on December 22, 2000.
A bench consisting of Justices GP Mathur and P Sadasivam also issued notices on the petition of Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and LeT terrorist, to Delhi government.
The Delhi High Court had confirmed the death sentence of the petitioner on September 14, 2007. A trial court had sentenced the petitioner to death in 2005 and Nazir Ahmed Quasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Quasid to life imprisonment.
The High Court had, however, acquitted six others in the case. The petitioner had challenged his conviction and sentence in the case on the grounds that there was no evidence against him showing his involvement in the conspiracy and both the trial court and High Court had committed a grave error of law.
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